Kids’ Picks–May

Jacob really likes books about animals. At the library, he recently found Bats (from the “Scary Creatures” series) written by David Gilpin and illustrated by Bob Hersey. This book gives a lot of factual information about bats, answering questions such as “How do bats fly?” and “Are Vampire Bats real?” The cool thing about this book is the Xray Vision. There are two special see-through pages. There is a picture of the bat on one page, and when you hold it up to the light, you see the skeleton through the page. It is a little hard to explain, but Jacob is fascinated by it. All of the drawings and photographs in the book are excellent. Now, if your kids don’t want to see a picture of a bat with the frog that it is eating dangling from its mouth, they will probably not like this book. However, if they don’t mind seeing the the food chain up close, they will probably love it as much as Jacob does!

We all like Nine Ducks Nine, by Sarah Hayes. This is a cute story about a fox who is trying to catch some ducks, and is, of course, unsuccessful. The book helps kids count backwards, counting down as each duck runs away and escapes from the fox.

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